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BLANK POR CHECKS AND OTHER NEGOTIABLE PAPERS.

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CLARENCE H. UHLER, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE- HALF TO J. CLEMENT UHLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BLANK FOR CHECKS AND OTHER NEGOTIA BLE PAPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,159, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed January l1, 1883. (No model.)

land Improved Blank for Checks and other Negotiable Papers, of which the followin is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in bank-checks, drafts, notes, or other negotiable instruments, the object being to facilitate the collection oi' checks or other negotiable paper.

Heretofore it has been customary for a bank or banking-house that has a check on another bank to collect to send it for collection to a bank with which it isin communication, or in which it has acorrespoiulent, and located in the place that is nearest the one in which the bank is located on which the check is drawn. lf the bank in which the check is deposited iol-collection is in communication or corresponds with the bank on which the check isi drawn, it sends the check direct to the same, but if it is not in connnunication or in correspondence with the same, it is forced to send the check to some otherbank with which itis in communication, and which is also in communication with the bank on which the check is drawn. By this method of procedure it frequently happens that a check deposited for collection in a bank located only a short distance from the bank ou which the check is drawn is obliged to travel a very greatrdistance before it can be collected or paid. In order that the objectionable features of the ordinary system above referred to may be clearly understood, I will proceed to give au i llustrati on of the unnecessary distance a check is sometimes obliged to travel before it can be collected; and to this end I refer the reader to the diagram illustrated by Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings, which is au actual case recently reported Suppose a check drawn ou a bank in N. Lewisburg is deposited for collection in abank at Vest Liberty, and the latter bank is not in communication or in correspondence with the bank at N. Lewisburg. The Vest Liberty bank, under the circumstances, sends the check to its correspondent nearest to Vest Liberty, which happens to be a Cincinnati bank, expecting the same is in communication or correspondence with the N. Lewisluirg bank. lf this is .not the case, lhe )incinnati bank sends the check to its correspondent nearest to N. Lewisburg, which .it presumes is in communication or correspondence with the N. Lewisburg bank. For example, it sends the check to a Columbus bank. The Columbus bank, not being in communication or in correspondence with the N. Lewisburg bank, sends it to Marysville. From there it goes ioSpringield, and then to Urbana. The 'Urbana bank sends it to its correspondent in Cincinnati, which happens to be a different bank from the. one through which the check had previously passed, and which happens, also, to be a correspondent ofthe N. Lewisburg bank, upon .which the check is drawn. The Cincinnati bank then collects the check direct and in the usual manner, and pays the money to the Urbana bank, which in turn pays .it to the Springlield bank, and so on in turn back to the starting-point at West Liberty. By the process described the check must often travel great distances, involving unnecessary expense and the loss of time. Should the check be protested at the N. Lewisburg bank for any reasons,the check must travel back over the exact route it took in reaching the N. Lewisburg bank from Vest Liberty until it again reaches XVest Liberty. Besides the delay and expense attending` this method of collecting checks, there are other losses that make thesystem very objectionable in actual practice. For instance, at the time 'the check is issued at Wrest Liberty the deposit in the N. Lewisburg bank may be perfectly safe and more than sufiicient to cover the check; but during the time the check is traveling around from place to place the party having an account at the N. Lewisburg bank may have drawn so heavily on his accountthat the check, when received, must be refused or protested, and this would have been avoided Y had the check been promptly forwarded. Again, this method of collecting checks causes great complication and needless expense to the several banks.

The object of my invention is to obviate the `objectionable vfeatures attending the collection IOO of checks and other negotiable instruments, as

c said check or other linstrument is collectible.

Y provement.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. l is a face view of a check; and Fig. 2, a rear view of the same, showing one form lof my im Fig. 3 is a diagramillustrating the course of a check that is collected in the manner customary heretofore.

On the back or face of the check or other negotiable instrument are printed or otherwise produced the names of the correspondents of the bank through which the check is collectible, so that if any other bank or lbankinghouse receives the check for collection it is e11- abled to immediately ascertain the different banks that are in communication or correspondence with the bank on which the check is drawn, and of the number of different banks noted on the check, the bank can forward it to the one that will insure the most prompt collection of the check. Resuming the illustration heretofore made, should the N. Lewisburg bank have its checksprovided with the names of all the banks with which it is in communication or. correspondence, the bank at West Liberty, at which the check is deposited for collection, could instantly ascertain the proper bank to which the check should-be sent to insure prompt collection andl settlement. should have the name of the First National `Bank of Cincinnati specified among its list of For instance, ifthe N. Lewisburg bank correspondents, the West Liberty-bank would Vonly need to send the check tolthe First National Bank of Cincinnati, its own correspondent, for collection, and the First National Bank of Cincinnati could then send the check direct to N. Lewisburg, thus obviating the necessity for having the check travel over the tortuous route illustrated in the diagramfFig. 3, and hence avoiding the loss, delay, and risk attending the old method of collection.

The names of the correspondents of the banks can be printed in pale ink on the face or theY back of the check; or they can be printed on one endl of the check. If desired, the

4words collectible without charge from the following banks7 can also be printed on the check-blank. The names can be printed, litho- 'graphed, stamped, or otherwise produced "in some suitable manner on the blank. In place of the names of banks, the names of bankinghouses, commercial agencies, and other com- :mercial establishments can be produced on y CLARENCE' H. UHLER.

Witnesses:

ADAM FUNcK, A. J. ll/[EREDITHl 

